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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Wednesday, July 7th, 2021. This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are diving into the beatitudes, and we are talking about the first beatitude,

which is, blessed are the poor in spirit,

for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Now, yesterday we talked about detachment and how being truly poor in spirit means that

we remember always that everything we have, our lives, our wealth, our

possessions, even our friends and our family, all of those things were generously given to us by God.

We didn't earn them. He just cave them to us. And that therefore, in order to be blessed and happy, we need to be like God

and be generous with everything we have and give, give, give, even if it hurts. That is how we are

poor in spirit. Now, today we're going to talk about another piece, which is something that we

talk about a lot on our journey toward holiness, which is called interior poverty.

This is a big concept, even for adults, but we're going to try to understand it.

So to start, I want you to picture someone who is very poor. Wherever they live in this

world, they barely have enough money to eat every day. They cannot buy any fun possessions or toys or

games. They work hard all day. They spend the money that they make working so hard to barely have enough to eat.

And sometimes they don't have enough to eat.

So picture this person.

Now, this person, everything that they get, let's say there's some surprise and they are given enough money to go buy a hamburger

from McDonald's or they're given an afternoon off where they can go and enjoy beautiful

weather.

All of these things they would be so grateful for because they have nothing. Also, a person like this, they depend totally on God.

They know that whether they will have enough to eat, whether they will have a place to stay,

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